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Developmental Transitions & Sociopathy. I. The Mid-Life Crisis. A. Mid-Life Crisis: a stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one’s past, typically occurring in the forties or fifties. B. Mid-Life is just one of many transitions.
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Developmental Transitions & Sociopathy
I. The Mid-Life Crisis A. Mid-Life Crisis: a stressful life period precipitated by the review and reevaluation of one’s past, typically occurring in the forties or fifties. B. Mid-Life is just one of many transitions. 1) Middle Age may be stressful, but no more than other stages of life. C. Turning Points: psychological transitions that involve significant change in a person’s life that happen throughout the lifespan.
II. Timing of Events Model of Personality A. Timing-of-Events Model:a theoretical model of personality that describes social and emotional development as a response to the expected or unexpected occurrence and timing of important life events. 1) Social Clock:a set of cultural norms or expectations for the times of life when certain important events, such as marriage, parenthood, entry into work, and retirement, should occur. III. The Father Figure A.Father Figure:usually an older man, normally one with power, authority, or strength, with whom one can identify with on a deeply psychological level and who generates emotions generally felt towards one's father.
B.Electra Complex:the belief that girls have a sexual interest in their father as a result of experiencing gender identification with their mother and are therefore competitively aggressive towards their mother for possession of their father. IV. Personality Disorders: enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts, are inflexible and maladaptive, and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress.
V. Antisocial Personality Disorder: a chronic psychiatric condition characterized by behavior, possibly criminal, that manipulates, exploits, or violates the rights of others (a.k.a. the sociopath or the psychopath). A. Other Key Characteristics… 1) Lack the ability to experience fear, although the startle response still remains. 2) Lack the ability to feel guilt, remorse, or empathy for others.
3) Lack of a “Conscience”: internal standards of behavior, which usually control one’s conduct and produce emotional discomfort when violated. 4) Often remarkably charming. 5)Often excel at“Self-Monitoring”: being aware of how one is presenting oneself in a social context and being able to adjust that image in different social contexts to create favorable impressions. 6) Some poor decision making skills. 7)Having Conduct Disorder prior to age 18 is often a precursor to Antisocial Personality Disorder. 8) Mostly found among men between the ages of 18 to 40. 9) More than five times as common among men as among women.
B. Criminal Activity • Most people with Antisocial Personality Disorder do • NOT commit crimes. 2) Most people with Antisocial Personality Disorder that do commit crimes are NOT murderers. 3) Serial killers are often diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder and are often highly intelligent. C. Treatment and Outcomes • As with most people suffering from Personality • Disorders, treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder • is usually ineffective. 2)Antisocial Personality Disorder often “appears” to disappear after the age of 40.
